Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary's "gift" to women


	Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary's "gift" to women

masbury

10-6-2008 2:08 PM

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clinton, women

masbury says:

Clinton didn’t just break through the “glass floor,” she set a new low for floors in general

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/58504a21-fde3-48e8-910a-313396ea4be8/F35A06EF-1E30-40D6-BA88-894DA5A51576/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ehrenreich.blogs.com/barbaras_blog/2008/05/hillarys-gift-t.html" href="http://ehrenreich.blogs.com/barbaras_blog/2008/05/hillarys-gift-t.html" style="font-size: 11px;">ehrenreich.blogs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ehrenreich.blogs.com/barbaras_blog/2008/05/hillarys-gift-t.html">Susan Faludi rejoiced over Hillary 
Clinton’s destruction of the myth of female prissiness and innate moral 
superiority, hailing Clinton’s “no-holds-barred pugnacity” and her media 
reputation as “nasty” and “ruthless.” </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ehrenreich.blogs.com/barbaras_blog/2008/05/hillarys-gift-t.html">But by running a 
racially-tinged campaign, lying about her foreign policy experience, and 
repeatedly seeming to favor McCain over her Democratic opponent, Clinton didn’t 
just break through the “glass floor,” she set a new low for floors in general, 
and would, if she could have got within arm’s reach, have rubbed the broken 
glass into Obama’s face.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ehrenreich.blogs.com/barbaras_blog/2008/05/hillarys-gift-t.html">But did we really need another lesson in the female capacity for ruthless 
aggression? Any illusions I had about the innate moral superiority of women 
ended four years ago with Abu Ghraib</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ehrenreich.blogs.com/barbaras_blog/2008/05/hillarys-gift-t.html">Hillary Clinton smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the 
worst possible way – by demonstrating female moral inferiority. We didn’t really 
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